Post #2350599
2026-02-25 07:52 UTC
Man, I had some fails in my time, but this one wasn't just a fail, it was fucking *embarrassing*.
"Build a special custom icebreaking display using the hardware on the ship, it'll be brilliant!"
The hardware doesn't work in the ice. Any actual icebreaker captain could have told me -- us -- that, had we -- they -- ever actually consulted one.
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 07:55
Not, I repeat, my only great failure as a geek. But, *damn*, that was humiliating. I wrote an *excellent* program that *brilliantly* displayed data coming from hardware that didn't work. It was a gig. I got paid. That's not the point. I was a pro, and pro's deliver *value*. All I delivered was a good laugh.